Another issue is that you typically get a stripped down version of Windows 7, and it costs a lot to upgrade it to ultimate. What really annoys me is that I need multiple languages on my computer, which is only available in the ultimate version of windows 7, whereas multiple language support comes included with a mac. When you look at everything that was included in the mac, the mac was cheaper for me. In addition, I like being able to go the Apple Store and take classes for free. I have learned a lot that way, and the only PC equivalent, Geek Squad, is quite costly.

I am still bitter about all of the crashes I had every time I got an update to my Vista machine, and I like surfing the web much better on my mac whereby I don’t have to worry as much about viruses, and it is much faster at browsing.

If your primary interest is music photo, and video production and your sold on a mac already, just know that all of us working in the industry have and use both, as we have to, if I get a mix from a client that did their sessions in cubase,(and i hate cubase) well, guess what i have to load into when i go to the studio they are working out of? I’m using whatever my client is most comfortable with, now this has no bearing on how i choose to mix or master it, but until I’ve got the master recording’s I’m at the mercy of the client, and whatever they want to use. Photo and video production, sure adobe software work a bit quicker, but this depends on your PC. A properly set-up PC is something to be marveled at, I still get goose bumps looking at my 5thousand dollar dells, but i still love my imac g4 i know she’s a bit old but running at 2 gigs of ram, keep’s her up to date, and true my macpro has replaced it as the mac platform workhorse, but keep in mind I’m a producer, i make records for a living buying these machines is, justified by my cost of doing business, not to mention i need to be running both platforms to make money. A bit about the video end, coming form someone who make’s intense big budget cgi fx, very very hard to do with mac’s expensive and sadly there is always a graphics card that you can get that will kill a mac, in fact I’ve still yet to see anyone on any site compare complex 3d animation work, with specs to the two machines, it’s not that mac’s cant do it really, but to be fair to get something comparable with a mac and be able to see how you could go a bit further for much less money not to mention the lack of options, to me the mac will never take and over and dominate like PC does and really windows, I have a buddy of mine that works tech support, mac stores, use window’s based cash register systems to sell their systems and this is at mac stores! Sadly do enough digging and you can find this out on your own, but it’s kinda funny and now you can run windows on a mac…. ok, Bill Gates won mate. Windows is on everything, people tend to forget that microsoft dose not make the machines, they only make software that can operate on a wide variety of hardware configuration, not to mention everyone can click around long enough and figure things out, mac’s and linux please, are not like that, as i can’t run OSX on any other hardware (reliably anyway) and being that I’m not a fan of proprietary shit, having machines overpriced for the hardware your getting, in a nice techy looking case, with really cool but limited amount of software, to me your in the wrong biz.

So windows wins, you can run them on mac’s and any hardware you like, I’ll keep my mac’s around, until they make logic for the pc, then i might be able to say hey switch to just one but until then, if your an average consumer that, want’s the computer that you cant break, go with a mac, if you want something though that you want to expand down the line, and not have to pay someone else to do it, and or wait till a store opens, IE walmart, has most PC hardware that one might need to fix a hardware problem, and i can just go there at 4 am to get a new harddrive , mechanical failure cause me to get an upgrade and i didn’t have to wait for a week to the nearest mac store could see me, when i had all of my ram fail and the computer wouldn’t boot, several time’s I’ve used a mac to try and figure out what was wrong with my PC, so it was refreshing for to be different.

So long story short, mac will be making machines as long as they can keep their best software, once OSX get’s legal, they will have to either lower the cost of machines, or stop all together, Ipod’s and Iphones will only take you so far, and yes i have both of those too, like i said i own both, like and use both, but when you look at the big picture, if i had to pick a company i know was going to be left standing in 50 years I’d have to go with microsoft

PS to windows fan boys, mac os is more stable because, less going on, but just because it’s simple doesn’t make it better.

PS to mac fan boys, majority ususally rules, but how much of the times have the majority been completely wrong, technology.

food for thought, if you can afford do it what i do and buy a couple of each, but if you have to choose just think it about it like this, they all break, when it breaks do you wanna be able to fix it yourself or have to pay? I’d rather fix myself, it’s quicker and cost less money lol.

Happy hunting, PS i still think the g4 imac was the greatist design as far as looks go of any computer ever made, i wish all of my machines just looked like that, the arm was genius and then ditched it oh well.

Cheers,
Christian-

One thing I will say is that you have to know when to buy your mac. I like to buy them right at the beginning of a new product cycle, and you can check the macrumors site for the best time to buy.

I also find that iLife and iWork are so much more effective to put together presentations than anything on a PC.

As for the article I mostly agree. Use what works for you. But I’ve also been a mac user for a couple years and I have to say I’m quite impressed with it, even though I have had OS X issues as well. I would never purchase another Windows computer unless I really wanted the hardware to install another OS on. For me it was the adware and viruses that put me over the edge. I was spending more time cleaning up Windows than I was using it.

But what it comes down to is using what you prefer. It is hard to try using a Mac on a normal basis unless you shell out the money to try it once.

The Linux OS also intrigues me and I have thought about installing it on my old laptop to try it out. But I am not a techie and learning the new system would probably take too much time at this point.